Thursday, May 17, 2007

Lost Property

Had two customers enter my office at the same today, and both of whom had lost their bags. Normally when I receive an item of lost property I inspect the bags, phones etc. very carefully for any possible contact numbers of the possible owner so they can be reunited with their property.

These two though were something different. The first man, had already travelled on a number of lines, and didn't have any idea as to what line his bag may have been on. Short of calling about 90 odd stations, I wasn't able to help him that much other than give him a lost property form and to inform the various line controllers to prevent any security alerts. The second individual had his head so far up his own rear I ended up escorting him out of my office. I asked him what the destination of the train on which he had travelled and he replied "the next stop" I informed him that our trains don't terminate at this station, and I needed more information to narrow down the search, he then started shouting, telling me to phone the f@@@ing stations, stop the service and find his bag. I asked him to stop swearing and he then proceeded to call me a cock and a quaver(??), as his diatribe continued to increase I had to make him leave the office empty handed.

btw, does anyone know what he meant by calling me a quaver??

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love your blog, saw it for the first time a few days ago. Nice to read a fellow staff member's thoughts!

Quaver????? Clearly the bloke wasn't the full shilling!

Anonymous said...

quaver-it means one who DITHERS ABOUT................ya QUAVER